Bauck Poppema or ''Bauck Foppesd. of Popma'' and ''Bauck Hemmema'', born in Terschelling, died in Berlikum,

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1501, was a legendary Dutch heroine, known for her defence of the fort Hemmemastate during the conflict between the Schieringers party and the Vetkopers party in 1496. Poppema was the wife of Doeke Hettes Hemmema (d. 1503), an ally of the Schieringers party. In 1496, a pregnant Poppema successfully defended the fort for a time during a siege by invaders from the city of Groningen. Eventually, however, enemy reinforcements arrived, after which the fort fell and all of Poppema's soldiers were executed. Poppema was imprisoned in Groningen, where legend holds that she gave birth to

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s while chained in a dungeon. She was released in 1497. Bauck Poppema has become a metaphor for a "brave woman" and an ideal for a Frisian heroine, and was compared to Jeanne Hachette and

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* http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DVN/lemmata/data/Poppema 16th-century Dutch people Women in 15th-century warfare 1501 deaths Dutch nobility People from Terschelling Year of birth unknown Women in medieval European warfare Women in war in the Netherlands {{Netherlands-bio-stub